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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

carlow-nationalist.ie

Homepage - Carlow Nationalist

Page Load Speed

17.3 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

16.6 sec

Page Rendered

500 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carlow-nationalist.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 17.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carlow-nationalist.ie performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.744

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.carlow-nationalist.ie

193 ms

css

30 ms

bootstrap.min.css

17 ms

responsivemobilemenu.css

8 ms

style.css

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 210 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Carlow-nationalist.ie, 8% (17 requests) were made to Ce.lijit.com and 6% (12 requests) were made to D234qeqk649blg.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (14.1 sec) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (49%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carlow-nationalist.ie main page is 2.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 142.4 kB

  • Original 199.0 kB
  • After minification 196.2 kB
  • After compression 56.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 142.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 640.4 kB
  • After minification 623.8 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Carlow Nationalist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 770.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 382.1 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 770.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 95.3 kB

  • Original 113.4 kB
  • After minification 99.4 kB
  • After compression 18.1 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Carlow-nationalist.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 138 (75%)

Requests Now

184

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 184 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carlow Nationalist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

carlow-nationalist.ie accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

carlow-nationalist.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

carlow-nationalist.ie SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Carlow-nationalist.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Carlow-nationalist.ie main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

carlow-nationalist.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Carlow Nationalist. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: